Wet periods in northeastern Brazil over the past 210 kyr linked to distant climate anomalies

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7018, 2004, Pages 740-743

  Wang, Xianfeng ^a   Auler, Augusto S ^b   Edwards, Lawrence ^a   Cheng, Hai ^a   Cristalli, Patricia S ^c,d   Smart, Peter L ^e   Richards, David A ^e   Shen, Chuan Chou ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDADE DE MOGI DAS CRUZES   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; VAPORS;

LATENT HEATS; PALAEOCLIMATE; WET PERIODS;

TROPICS;

WATER;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUATERNARY;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASIA; ATMOSPHERE; BRAZIL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD; ICELAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; RIVER; SEA; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SUMMER; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERE; BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; OCEANS AND SEAS; RAIN; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER MOVEMENTS; WEATHER; WIND;

ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATES; FORESTRY; TROPICS; WATER VAPOR;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 10644227679     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03067     Document Type: Article

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